– not pen. It’s got

that same silken
dust about it, doesn’t it,

that same sense of having been roughed

onto paper even
as it was planned.

It had to be a labor
of love. It must’ve

taken its author some
time, some shove.

I’ll bet it felt good
in the hand–the o

of the ocean, and
the and and the and

of the land.

by Todd Boss